With the World Stumbling Past 1.5 Degrees of Warming, Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Could Trigger Unrest and Authoritarian Backlash

As Earth’s annual average temperature pushes against the 1.5 degree Celsius limit beyond which climatologists expect the impacts of global warming to intensify, social scientists warn that humanity may be about to sleepwalk into a dangerous new era in human history.

From water to wood-burning stoves: 11 green challenges Labour must solve

The new Labour government faces a massive task in seeking to repair the UK’s degraded environment and fight the climate crisis.

‘Antidotes to despair’: five things we’ve learned from the world’s best climate journalists

Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope of Covering Climate Now (CCNow) hail the winners of their organization’s annual global climate journalism awards, and here describe some lessons they have taken from the more than 1,250 entries.

Devastation as world’s biggest wetland burns: ‘those that cannot run don’t stand a chance’

Perched atop blackened trees, howler monkeys survey the ashes around them. A flock of rheas treads, disoriented, in search of water. The skeletons of alligators lie lifeless and charred.

Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms

The de facto ban on new onshore windfarms has been dropped by the Labour government, to the delight of environmentalists and energy experts.

Climate protesters won’t be deterred by fines, jail or political mixed messages on the environment

Activists are convinced a wartime campaign of resistance is the only way to highlight the existing system’s failure to meet the moment

Malawi’s Farmers Face a Precarious Future From Climate Change-Related Storms

Photo credit: Freddie Clayton

South Sudan records the world’s largest mammal migration

The results of a recent survey show that Southern Sudan is home to the world's largest mammal migration.

Ivory Coast steps up the pace of the circular economy with an innovation laboratory

Ivory Coast, faced with waste pollution, is focusing on the circular economy to gradually eradicate it.

17 million from the AfDB will change everything for rural women farmers in Mauritania

In Mauritania, a $17 million package from the African Development Bank (AfDB) bodes well for 22,200 households and 205 women's cooperatives that depend on agriculture for their livelihoods in rural areas. The Project for the Promotion of Gen

AFRICA: in 2024, Agroecological Food Prize will be awarded to three food innovations

As part of its vision to promote ecological development, the Swiss foundation Biovision is launching the first edition of its Agroecological Food Futures Prize in East Africa.

CONGO: Cleared of waste, Pointe-Noire beach regains its appeal

A clean-up operation has been carried out on the Congolese beach at Pointe-Noire. At least 2.6 tonnes of waste were collected from the site, which was beginning to lose its appeal. In the Congo, sanitation is everyone’s business.

Why does being right on climate feel so wrong?

Florida: tree cactus becomes first local species killed off by sea-level rise

Scientists in Florida have recorded what they say is the first local extinction of a species caused by sea-level rise.

Hurricane Beryl supercharged by ‘crazy’ ocean temperatures, experts say

Hurricane Beryl, which slammed into Texas on Monday after wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, was supercharged by “absolutely crazy” ocean temperatures that are likely to fuel fur

Nato’s 2023 military spending produced about 233m metric tonnes of CO2 – report

As leaders from member countries gather to mark the 75th anniversary of Nato in Washington DC, researchers are warning that their military budgets are eroding the climate, producing

Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital

A ruling described by activists as “historic”, a court in Ecuador has ruled that pollution has violated the rights of a river that runs through the country’s capital, Quito.

‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130 million people across US

A long-running heatwave that has already broken records, sparked dozens of wildfires and left about 130 million people under a high-temperature threat is about to intensify enough that the National Weather Service has deemed it “potentially historic”.

Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls

A disrupted climate and diminished natural world are widening the dividing lines of ideological debate. Left unchecked, this will undermine democracy.

After asking ‘What about the climate?’ for 14 years, I’m standing down as an MP. But I have reasons to be hopeful

When I entered parliament back in 2010 as the first Green MP, I used every possible trick in the book to push the environment up the UK’s political agenda.